Missouri won’t make some flooded district make up lost days

(AP) – Missouri education officials say 39 school districts
won’t need to make up the days they canceled because of flooding.The waivers the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
granted this week excuse the districts from minimum school-calendar
requirements.

The Joplin Globe reports that the affected districts include Westview, a
school system between Seneca and Neosho that serves students through eighth
grade. The state waived 10 days after about 2 feet of floodwater filled some of
its buildings. The district had finished all state testing. Field trips, parties
and graduation were all scheduled for the last two weeks of school.

Westview Superintendent Misty Hailey says the flooding “pretty much cut our
building in half.”

Flooding in April and early May claimed six lives statewide and forced
hundreds to evacuate.

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